E. M. Forster

History develops, art stands still.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.